Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

Regional Initiatives

Participants : Guillaume James, Vincent Acary, Franck Pérignon, Bernard Brogliato.

An IXXI project (institute for complex systems) has been accepted in November 2012. It concerns the study of nonsmooth mechanical systems with a particular focus on nonlinear waves, and nonlinear modes. Title: Ondes non linéaires dans les réseaux granulaires et systèmes mécaniques spatialement discrets.

ANR

• Project ChaSlim (01 October 2011–30 September 2015). Coordinated by Bernard Brogliato. Partcipants from BIPOP: V. Acary, O. Huber, B. Wang. Other partners: IRCCYN nantes and EPI NON-A from Inria Lille. Topic: reduction of chattering in sliding mode control (http://chaslim.gforge.inria.fr/ )

• NSFC/ANR project Multiple Impact (01 january 2009 – 31 March 2012). Coordinated by B. Brogliato for the French side, and by C. Liu for the Chinese side. Participants from BIPOP: N.S. Nguyen.

• Project Saladyn (01 January 2009 –31 December 2012). Coordinated by V. Acary. Participants from BIPOP: F. Pérignon, M. Brémond, B. Brogliato (http://saladyn.gforge.inria.fr/ )

• Project Geolmi (January 2011– December 2014). Geometry and Algebra of LMI with Systems Control Applications. Participants from BIPOP: J. Malick (http://homepages.laas.fr/henrion/geolmi/

Competitivity Clusters

• PSPC Project Romeo 2 (01 December 2012–01 December 2016). Topic: Development of a humanoid robot assistant and companion for everyday life. Participants from Bipop: P.-B. Wieber and D. Dimitrov.